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Another Time, Another PlaceJessie KessonIn the summer of 1944, three Italian prisoners of war are billeted in a remote village in the northeast of Scotland. For most of the locals, their arrival is of little interest, hardly disturbing the quiet routines of their isolated crofting communit...$9.95

The Breadmakers Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair's Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbing...$20.00

Burning AmbitionMargaret ThomsonMarie Hepburn, illegitimate daughter of the Bishop of Moray, is only seventeen when she is promised in marriage to the repulsive Duke of Glasgow. But at the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots, where betrayal and violent death are commonplace, this proves...$12.95

Clydesiders at WarMargaret Thomson DavisThis is the final part of the epic Clydesiders trilogy - a tale of two Glasgow families that began amid the dying embers of the Edwardian era and reaches its conclusion in the dark days of the Second World War....$29.95

The frantic arrival of P.C. Dean at Inspector Faro's door one winter morning brings news of the first killing in Coffin Lane. Accompanied by his stepson Vince...$11.95

Collected Works of Lorna Moon, TheLorna Moon; edited by Glenda NorquayTwice married, widely traveled, and romantically entangled with the brother of Cecil B. DeMille, the story of Lorna Moon’s transformation from landlord’s daughter in northeast Scotland to successful scriptwriter in the early days of Holly...$15.00

Comic Legend of William McGonagallA Pictorial Story Based on the Life of the World's Worst PoetCharles NasmythCreated by Charles Nasmyth and with an introduction by Richard Demarco, Scotland's most influential advocate of contemporary art - The Comic Legend of William McGonagall is a part-satirical, part-factual collection which illustrates the...$19.95

A fantastic new graphic novel, in full color, of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure story, commissioned by Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature, created by wo...$17.95

Gilian the DreamerNeil MunroThe centenary edition of one of Munro’s finest historical novels, introduced by Douglas Gifford of Glasgow University. Set at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as disaffected soldiers are returning to their homes in the Highlands, it tells the st...$12.95

John Utterson notices that his friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, has been acting very strangely. As he invest...$13.95

Goodmans of Glassford StreetMargaret Thomson DavisGoodmans of Glassford Street is the story of a successful but old-fashioned family department store and the lives and conflicts of the people who work in it, including the strong-willed matriarch Abigail Goodman.

Douglas Benson, A...$12.95

Guests of WarRobin JenkinsAn authentic and atmospheric evocation of wartime Scotland, widely regarded as one of Jenkins' finest novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in 1939, as a small town comes to terms with an influx of deprived city evacuees.

Robin Jenkins$12.95

Jack and the Devil's PurseScottish Traveller TalesDuncan Williamson; edited by Linda WilliamsonDevil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These 20 tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insight into traveller beliefs about evil, temptation and suffering in which the Devil exists n...$15.00

John Burnet of BarnsJohn BuchanSet in the Scottish Borders in 1678, John Burnet of Barns tells the story of two young noblemen: John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns and the last in a long line of Border reivers, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing...$12.95

KidnappedThe Graphic Novel in Full ColorRobert Louis Stevenson; adapted by Alan Grant; illustrated by Cam KennedyIt is 1751, Scotland has suffered a time of uncertainty and rebellion, and young David Balfour is alone and penniless in the world.

He doesn't realize a letter from his dead father is about to launch him on the most frightening, exciting and i...$24.00

KidnappitThe First Graphic Novel in ScotsRobert Louis Stevenson; adapted by Cam KennedyKidnappit is the Scots language version of the exciting new graphic novelization of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, a dramatic and epic adventure story about a seventeen-year-old desperate to secure his inheritence, culminat...$14.95

Light and DarkMargaret Thomson DavisSet in Edinburgh and West Lothian at the end of the Victorian era, Light and Dark is the powerful story of the Blackwood family: Lorianna, a beautiful young woman, married at sixteen to a considerably older man; Gavin, her austere and sancti...$14.95

On a Scotch BardAn Illustrated Life of Robert BurnsKeith MitchellThe poet Robert Burns needs little introduction to lovers of Scotland and her literature, but even amongst the Scots there are too many who only recall him every January 25th, professing to know the story of the bard's life and yet struggling to...$9.95

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Volume 1J.F. CampbellJohn Francis Campbell of Islay's great collection stands today as one of the great memorials to Victorian scholarship, as well as the greatest treasurehouse of Scottish folktales ever produced.

These stories reveal for the first time the full...$25.95

Reek Roon a CampfireA Collection of Ancient TalesStanley RobertsonIn Reek Roon a Camp Fire, Stanley Robertson takes the reader on a journey of wonder with a collection of authentic Traveller tales – from fairy folks to supernatural happenings and tales of everyday life – design...$16.95